FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 239 



we figure on increasing all our different premiums. This year we 

 also had a ba])y health contest. All the way through we have 

 free attractions and tiy to get the best we can. "We have fire 

 works three nights out of four, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 

 nights. We issue to the children 5,000 school children's tickets this 

 year absolutely free. We always designate Tuesday or Thursday. 

 This year on account of its being rainy we let them come in any 

 time they presented these school tickets. Of course they got in 

 anyway, the majority of them. But we issued 5,000 tickets this 

 year, Thursday and Tuesday as the rural schools and the grade 

 schools day. We have a day and night performance. The chil- 

 dren's tickets admit to both. 



A Delegate: What is your age limit for admission? 



Mr. Lauer: Twelve years. Another thing we had at our place 

 — of course it depends on whether you are so situated that you 

 can do it — we have a camping ground, and we have worked on 

 this camping ground and. have finally got all the space we have 

 had taken up by campers. We had somewhere in the neighborhood 

 of eighty different campers. In one side we had fifty some devoted 

 entirely to pleasure, and the other side about thirty of our ex- 

 hibitors. We have two ideal spots, as far as that goes, for camping, 

 and we lay special stress on the fact that people can come there 

 and camp. We had over fifty in one place in our east corner of our 

 ground that put in toilets and also electric lights. 



A Delegate : How many acres have you in your grounds ? 



Mr. Lauer: We have close onto forty acres. We bought 10.6 

 acres this year. The thirty acres belong to the city as a city park, 

 and we simply lease it. But this 10.6 acres we bought this year 

 we built the new barn on. 



The total attendance this year was 46,000. We fell down on 

 the boys' camp this last year. We had some mix up and unneces- 

 sarily too. I wouldn't know just what to call it. But the board 

 was just a little close last year in regard to paying, so they thought 

 they would try a new system. So we didn't get started on this 

 work as promptly as we should. The boys' camp didn't mature as 

 we expect it to do in the future. We think the boys' camp is one of 

 the leading features. We are laying special stress on it this year. 

 We expect to put in a system to get the children interested. We 

 have a junior department that is under the superintendency of a 

 lady who takes part in the work and has charge of this work ex- 

 clusively. They raise flowers, vegetables and those things. We give 



